The XVIII Worst Decisions in Sports History*

The XVIII Worst Decisions in Sports History*

The cruelty of sports is that a single brain fart can define an entire career. But feel no pity for the idiots on this list: They deserve that permanent dunce cap welded to their pin heads

*Note: Since we are all geniuses with the benefit of hindsight, this is a list of decisions that were clearly idiotic at the time they were made. No one knew, for instance, that Ryan Leaf would turn out to be a moody turd, except for everyone who knew Ryan Leaf personally.

Any Knicks fans who say this was wise are just deluding themselves out of psychological necessity. They cannot face the truth—that owner James Dolan is a petty bastard who let a rising talent and marketing behemoth leave for nothing—because it would lead inexorably to self-immolation. To be a Knicks fan now, you must be able to maintain your reality-distortion field and believe that, at any moment, a purple unicorn will gallop into Madison Square Garden and gift the court with solid-gold robot versions of the 1972–73 Knicks.